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After unsuccessfully trying to sell 925 Fulton Street for, at one point at least, $1,500,000, the owner has given up and started to rehab the beautiful shell of a building. At the end of August, DOB granted permits for a complete gut renovation, including the construction of new stairs. This is great news for Fulton Street. This stretch of buildings on the corner of Waverly has long been a blight and a barrier to reviving the commercial strip. Now if only something could be done about the methadone clinic across the street.
Shell of Its Former Self, 925 Fulton Street For Sale [Brownstoner] GMAP P*Shark DOB


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  1. Help that is coming when those burned out hulks of stores are renovated. I agree, it’s not the most savory stretch of Fulton. Head a few more blocks in either direction and Fulton gets nicer. But I’d blame that more on the fact that those buildings are burned-out hulks and that there are drug dealers, not the people getting methadone. I’d blame people actually using illegal drugs — and yes, pot does count, by the way. Please remember that, even if your guy delivers.

    Sorry, like I said, I get that it’s not the most savory corner. I can see that. But you chose to live near it. And it is improving. Generally, I think you do a fair job of being pretty even-keeled, Mr. B. But save your ire for the dealers, not the people trying not to use the dealers. Shouldn’t they get some respect for trying to turn their lives around?

  2. That is what I was trying to hit on in my initial response. They clearly are not good for attracting business. And yet I personally have not had an encounter that has made me feel threatened. I certainly am in favor of any initiative that can help Fulton Street improve and rebuild. And yet I wonder where else the clinic and how that neighborhood will feel. In a more established commercial strip the clinic patients would be more discreetly absorbed into the streetscape and yet those neighborhoods are better organized against such clinics.

  3. What a predictable bunch of knee-jerk responses. It’s well documented that this area has WAY more than its fair share of methadone clinics and that this particular one is one of the major reasons that retail on this stretch of Fulton Street has had such a difficult time. If the folks visiting and running the methadone clinic were better neighbors we might feel inclined to cut them some more slack, but that ain’t the case.

  4. My kid and I walk by them almost every day and they don’t bother us. I am more bothered by the homeschooling freaks in the neighborhood who feel compelled to make excuses about why they do so in Salon.com.

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